On the plus side,
research has shown that families are actually becoming closer as a
result of technology. Children and parents are able to text and
communicate 24/7, and sharing photos and videos has allowed for
familes to become more a part of each other's lives. Yet research has
also shown that parents and kids both are feeling a hunger for more
face-to-face time. While it is debatable that the internet and
texting is causing us to become more disconnected from each other, it
is definitely clear that we now have an entirely different social
environment surrounding us than our parents did in their generation.
Manners, privacy, and discretion are concepts that we now must make
more of an effort to maintain, coupled with the other challenges that
come with having so much digital presence and interaction. Our
society is changing quickly. How is our humanity changing with it?
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